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This article has been completely rewritten and will undergo a series of inline references in an attempt to attain Feature Article nomination.----Magi Media 06:28, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Magi Media[reply]

O.M. & M. R. R.

As it appears at the upper end of the Mount Lowe Railway on the following map:

What was that?

Peter Horn 13:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I overlooked the OMMRR in my article, but it's not really part of the MLR. The OM&M (one man and a mule) was a small tourist attraction started by a man who had taken up a sort of residency at the Tavern. He used the OMM as a means of income to pay for his stay. He suffered from tuberculosis and the drier California climate of the time was a place for more ailing people to come.

Mr. Z., short for Zetterwall, laid one mile of rickety track along four major peaks, they all had names like John Muir Peak and Observation Peak, and his mule Herbert would push a two side-seater cart with passengers, maybe a dozen or so, down and back on the tracks from Inspiration Point. The story is on my website book, Man, Mountain, and Monument, Chapter 16. [1]--Magi Media 14:42, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More photos available at LAPL website

I've been looking for Altadena photos, and I noticed the LA Public Library's excellent photo collection has many free-PD photos of this railway system. Feel free to mine it. --Bobak 21:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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The lede is too long.

Nice article, but most of the lede should be moved to the History section. GeorgeLouis (talk) 01:15, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway

The Mt. Lowe Railway had more controllers than listed missing is Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway. The below will be add unless there is a reply - fixes.

In 1896 Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe ceded control of the his Pasadena & Mount Wilson Railroad^[1], Mount Lowe Railway, that took visitors high in the Angeles National Forest to the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway Co, due to high maintenance cost he was not able keep it going. Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway keep the name the same: Pasadena & Mount Wilson Railroad Co. Along with high operating cost, in 1896 Lowe lost a franchise to build electric railway from Altadena to Pasadena and the franchise went to the Pasadena & Los Angeles Electric Railway. ^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

^ erha.org Mount Lowe Line
^ [http://www.cityprojectca.org/pdf/uscgeogstudy.pdf PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO LOCAL NATIONAL FORESTS, by Ron Frescas, Chris Martin, and Christine Steenken, University of Southern California Dr. Steve R. Koletty, Prepared for the Center for La w in the Public Interest, April 15, 2004]
^ [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18960629.2.22.4 Digital Library Consulting, Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 271, 29 June 1896, Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway and Mount Lowe Railway timetable.
^ The Land of Sunshine: A Southern California Magazine, Volume 5, 1896

Telecine Guy 06:49, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Mount Lowe Railway/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

This article is still B class, but with a little more polishing, could easily attain GA class. Two quick items that I noticed: the references aren't all in a consistent format (use the citation templates) and the lead section is a bit long. Slambo (Speak) 16:52, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 16:52, 14 November 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 00:31, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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[1] rha.org Mount Lowe Line

[2] [http://www.cityprojectca.org/pdf/uscgeogstudy.pdf PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO LOCAL NATIONAL FORESTS, by Ron Frescas, Chris Martin, and Christine Steenken, University of Southern California Dr. Steve R. Koletty, Prepared for the Center for La w in the Public Interest, April 15, 2004]

[3] [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18960629.2.22.4 Digital Library Consulting, Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 271, 29 June 1896, Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway and Mount Lowe Railway timetable.

[4] The Land of Sunshine: A Southern California Magazine, Volume 5, 1896

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